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Contact us today to learn how you can license the AVANCE QCCM Program and leverage our expertise, resources, and support to create a lasting impact on local child care for generations to come.
Building a community of family child care providers
Family, or home-based, child care providers care for small groups of children in their own homes. Families often rely on family/home-based child care because of its availability, affordability, and a preference for a more nurturing environment. Family child care providers meet such an important need in our communities, but many still do not have access to resources that would help them ensure children receive high-quality care.
The AVANCE Quality Child Care Matters (QCCM) Program is transforming family child care through education, support, and community building. We provide the tools, resources, and nurturing environment for family child care providers to thrive. Our comprehensive program is built around three core objectives:
Creating self-sustaining support networks for local family child care providers
Promoting family choice and the use of family child care
Enhancing the standard of care for children within family child care homes
How it Works
The QCCM Program uses a combination of strategies to meet family child care providers where they are, providing guidance and support as they strengthen the quality of their care and achieve their personal goals.
Training and Professional Development
Mentoring and Coaching
Learning Network
Program Impact
In 2024-2025, the QCCM program reached 101 family child care providers across Texas and New Mexico.
Demonstrated increased knowledge about quality child care practices
Reported an increase in provider connectedness
Demonstrated increased knowledge about kindergarten readiness
Demonstrated increased business knowledge
72%
Increased or maintained their ability to create a budget, including monthly revenue and expenses
67%
Increased or maintained their belief they should be paid as the owner of their child care business
79%
Providers adopting or maintaining the use of a research-based curriculum for instruction by the end of the program
37%
Increase in participants who felt confident in applying to become part of their state’s quality rating system after completing the program
I consider myself blessed, having registered for a Saturday conference last year. I was able to connect with people I hadn't seen for years, even before the pandemic. They were so enthusiastic about the many benefits afforded them by this group that I was curious and anxious to join. Since then, the trainings have been convenient and informative. The fellowship, encouragement, humor, and anecdotes offered by the other members make it both enjoyable and vital to my business. Thank you for the chance to participate in this year's program.
-Rachel Mojica Brown